Felt like leaving a short note for the bliz devs to say congrats on a great season start! There may be a few visual bugs but nothing to actually complain about. To be most honest, the game is in the best shape it’s ever been.
I appreciate the faster approach this season. Even tho I am not playing the other game, I know plenty of people are enjoying it and I know plenty of people enjoy both. The healthy competition between gg and bliz dev teams is only positive between two games that go as great together as chocolate and pb. People who want to play both can, and for people who just want to play one or the other, you still can too. Neither team has to fight too hard to keep our attention obviously.
Only playing the Barb so far this season and here I am sitting pretty at 241 paragon already. Accidently spelt my Barby’s name wrong so once I hit 300, I am just going to delete and recreate her and so what? I’m blasting pit 115, started the season on rank 5 on helltides already just to watch everyone show up after us first 8 … and boy howdy, did y’all ever! Tons of fun to watch Rob up there and me find a way to sandwiched between his two builds for only a moment. It’s even more funny bc someone thinks he is me or I am him somehow. Nice job showing up fellow barbs! So glad to EM exposed for the joke he is too. I called it!
For the record, I still love hordes and I am happy to teach people the secret in the sauce in maximizing their 2n+a! function’s potential. Super cool that the Bliz devs hid that programming easter egg in there and I bet my friends at Bliz would have known that I would find it. The Hordes are the Diablo Steroid version of the Danger Room from Marvel Heroes launched back in 2013 by David Brevik the creator of Diablo, and know that I would find it! Thanks everyone who helped with that! Btw devs, when I had that meeting back in 2020 when I got told that you all liked my ideas to create the Paragon board, I was shocked! And I am so honored you all thought of me and told me about that in advance of the game launch. I have been waiting to get my teeth sunk into it ever since. Hilarious that EM thinks he is somehow an innovator with all that ‘paragon board stuff’ that Mr Rogan called it.
Amazing. Surprise! D4 is actually secretly a masterpiece of a game. It blends together the best of all of the previous games, while creating something new, and paying secret homage to the original creator of the series by hiding a programming C suite algorithm in plain sight for you to find, and for me to covertly teach you programming! lol! The content, the gameplay, it is engaging and beautiful! Everything is coming along swimmingly and I am very happy about it.
Seriously, readers and true believers alike, if you do not know your Diablo history and you are new the series, enjoy D4 as it’s best yet in Season 7! Still somewhat competitive (even for us casual gamer dad like personas) and fun, very much having improved on loot mechanics and drops, while staying true to David Brevik’s original intent of the series. To be a game with lots of fun combat in a horror setting, with a great narrative, and casino style loot drop mechanics. You are supposed to get that feeling every time that great item drops. You are supposed to get that satisfaction of finding that mythic and smacking up that world or pit boss while having fun with other gamers. You made a horror land amusement park with a casino flair out of D4 and I am loving every minute of it devs! Okay, only complaint I have I guess is that microtransactions and these beautiful cosmetics are still too expensive. We know you know. Ce la vie!
The social aspects are on point and better than D2 maybe at this point. Some people might not agree , however, we can all be entitled to our own opinion and not be at each other’s throats over disagreements right? Having a game to blast away at demons is much better at resolving conflicts than any of that Lilith rhetoric.
Personally, I like the D3 style pits. It works very well in D4 as a throwback that works. Do we want and need more end game stuff… sure. The game has a few holes to fill and is still coming along and the devs have proven they are building more great things to come! D4 is now optimized for efficiency having improved so many things from the base game which was already great. You have done it. Thank you for the best season to date from D4. Idk, maybe lower some of the garbage non GA legs for next season? The added dopamine is great… for now but I agree with Rhykker almost. We might need a loot filter at this point. All things with moderation and such right? We can draw out next season a little longer me thinks.
This season is refreshing. Having throwbacks to Season 2 and 3 makes the gameplay furiously fun. Having throwbacks to the Witch Doctor, respectfully, works as well. Having the SB nerfed and the other classes like Barb and Necro shining again is even better! Personally still thinking HoTa is underperforming with the dps, however, I like that people are trying out the other skills and watching see people throw together new builds on the fly from whatever template and seeing people engage together over all the variants and sharing tips, that’s great too.
Any of my ‘acting’ bits aside, I’m really grateful to be able to be an adult and appreciate this for what it is having followed the series since I first got into Diablo as a kid. Thank you for another great season!
Any of you non Barb or Necros out there, Druid seems good to a lot of people too atm and I am sure that Rogue and Sorc will get more love and improvements in further seasons. It’s clear the devs have a lot of love and respect for the game and franchise and gamers and other dev teams from other games, I am glad to have 'em doing such a great job at developing Season 7.
Kudos!
its literally the same except Baal runs were fun because you never knew when you got a decent or one in a million uniq or rare.
